Re: [pear-webmaster] Suggestion: Change the CO timezone
| From: | Daniel Convissor | Date: | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:40:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [pear-webmaster] Suggestion: Change the CO timezone | ||
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Hi:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 09:00:52PM +0200, Stephan Schmidt wrote:
[Hey, Stephan, how about leaving in attributions?]
[This was written by Helgi --dc]
>
> >By default yes, but also might be useful that logged in people could
> >define their timezone and get the times according to that ? :)
>
> This would be great!
Agreed. The format for selecting time zones should be platform
independent, which I've found the "EST5EDT" format to be. We could pull
together a list of all the TZ's and put them into a select list on the
account info page.
> Why not use Net_GeoIP for that?
Overkill. Not 100% accurate. Just because someone is coming in from an
IP in some place doens't meean that's how they think about time.
--Dan
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